Manifesto for Another World : Voices from Beyond the Dark

by Dorfman, Ariel

• ISBN13: 9781583225639
• ISBN10: 1583225633
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-07-30
• Publisher: Random House Inc

Summary

In this interlocking prose web of first-person testimony, novelist, poet, and playwright Ariel Dorfman relates the struggles of fifty hard-core human rights activists hailing from more than forty countries. Manifesto for Another World features the words and struggles of internationally celebrated activists including Vaclav Havel, Baltasar Garzon, Helen Prejean, and Marian Wright Edelman; and Nobel Prize Laureates the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Oscar Arias Sanchez, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Jose Ramos-Horta, and Bobby Muller. Equally moving are the stories of more than thirty others, unknown and (as yet) unsung beyond their national boundaries. From their diverse voices Dorfman culls the message: freedom from persecution, and freedom of opportunity, for all. Ariel Dorfman has been hailed by The Washington Post as a "world novelist of the first order."

Author Biography

ARIEL DORFMAN is considered to be one of “the greatest Latin American novelists” (Newsweek) and one of the United States’ most important cultural and political voices. Dorfman's numerous works of fiction and nonfiction have been translated into more than thirty languages, including Death and the Maiden, which has been produced in over one hundred countries and made into a film by Roman Polanski. Dorfman has won many international awards, including the Sudamericana Award, the Laurence Olivier, and two from the Kennedy Center. He is distinguished professor at Duke University and lives in Durham, North Carolina.

Table of Contents

What We Know	9	(16)
Voices from Beyond the Dark: The Speak Truth to Power play	25	(50)
Afterword: Some Suggestions for Helping These Voices Live	75	(8)
About the Author	83